正在中国访问的美军参谋长联席会议主席彼得·佩斯23日在北京举行的新闻发布会上表示，他与中国军方领导商谈了建立美中军事热线一事。“希望通过军事热线，增加双方沟通的机会，减少误判，消除误解。”& Y1 V% ^! }( g. V8 T
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佩斯是应中央军委委员、中国人民解放军总参谋长梁光烈的邀请，于22日开始对中国为期4天的正式访问。中央军委副主席郭伯雄，中央军委副主席、国务委员兼国防部长曹刚川22日分别会见了佩斯。梁光烈与佩斯举行了会谈。 r5 {; O, w" I U; E
# ]6 O. Q% J# x- Q2 {* Q4 ` 佩斯说，他们讨论了通过其他途径增进两军间的信任，比如，互相观摩军事演习，共同参加人道主义救援，增加军官交流等。& F4 I2 y8 z- b
, k8 W' p+ h* u( K+ t 佩斯一行是今年访华的第一个美国高级军事代表团，也是佩斯2005年就任美军参联会主席以来首次访华。5 T1 f2 A$ c% Q( ]* a6 e
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U.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible 5 E* J# ~$ h* J2 ` & O+ Y# t/ G- W7 YBEIJING — China's military is proposing officer exchanges and other confidence-building measures with the U.S. Army and may be inching closer to setting up a “hotline” for emergency communication with Washington, the top U.S. general said Friday. 0 T0 w, g3 @$ T" {5 [+ |- F( |2 ?% h! R$ h* {/ A4 t" a
However, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he received no new information in meetings with Chinese military chiefs about Beijing's test of an anti-satellite weapon in January that raised concern in Washington. He said he continued to press China's generals for more transparency about the aims of their military buildup. & U( Y% o+ Z+ Y1 A! q3 |: M7 _* ]) B% v' ^( U& u6 D
“I used the example of the anti-satellite test as how sometimes the international community can be confused, because it was a surprise that China did that, and it wasn't clear what their intent was,” Gen. Pace said. 5 i) R/ x( ]$ p5 |# `5 q) ~! S9 j
Gen. Pace said he immediately agreed to study the proposals put forward Friday by Gen. Liang Guanglie, chief of the PLA's General Staff Department. Liang's move suggested a departure from the skepticism with which the highly secretive People's Liberation Army has long regarded co-operation with the U.S. military., {' w7 ?6 w% L
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“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing./ ?) j0 B+ H# ^: F( U
$ |" P! h) W5 oGen. Liang's proposals included sending Chinese cadets to the Army academy at West Point as well as participating in joint exercises and humanitarian and relief-at-sea operations “that might be able to build trust and confidence amongst our forces.”% H% {" d/ {! {9 d9 B( f. f4 J0 `) ]
6 i( B" V; b- R4 r+ xMilitary exchanges were largely suspended following a collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese jet fighter over the South China Sea in 2001. The Chinese pilot was killed and the U.S. crew held captive after making an emergency landing at a Chinese air base. ( s0 s0 O0 ^. e # l- X$ x8 w; y' N1 @During that crisis, communication between the sides was spotty and at times non-existent, largely because Washington had no direct channel of communications with the Chinese leadership.! Y7 \7 D* ]6 e D+ j
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Gen. Pace said the sides agreed to keep discussing setting up a “hotline” between either military or civilian leaders that would help ease any future friction.! G# u1 \! Q% x, s
2 G% K6 T6 C* H( p2 [" b“The Chinese military understands as well as I do that the opportunity to pick up the phone and talk to somebody you know and smooth out misunderstandings quickly is a very important part of relations between two countries,” Gen. Pace said., e9 k; P! }5 g% z# p
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Deep mistrust remains, however, particularly over Washington's close military ties with Japan and commitment to help ensure the defence of Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers its own territory and which it has threatened to use force to recover. ) O( r7 t2 l& x- W( Y* b2 l% H" X& h/ a9 U' B7 d
China has complained about U.S. plans to sell a batch of more than 400 missiles to Taiwan, but Gen. Pace said he had no details and didn't indicate whether the deal was mentioned in discussions.7 i/ w2 Y z) A% x. a( @
6 r% y) M6 U' DAsked about the possibility of a conflict over Taiwan, he said: “I believe there are good faith efforts among all the leadership to prevent that.”+ R1 T. A8 e# q. i1 H- [1 |3 v0 ?
8 ]+ [8 g& t" D2 wThe general didn't say how the Chinese officers responded to his calls for more transparency. China raised its military budget by 17.8 per cent this year to about $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high. ! ~3 b( t; n0 ]' \# B* d : u1 R, V- n G3 K( D) ?; d( aThe spending boost and January's satellite test, in which China became only the third country to destroy an object in space by pulverizing one of its own unused satellites with a missile warhead, heightened the sense of unease in Washington over China's 2.3 million-member armed forces. E) G; N, l9 }8 L8 H- \ 3 D' _7 C" N: H- @& ] `2 r ) v/ ~4 k6 r! |+ a1 P; x8 N/ R: q( u, D: A( C& h
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Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace inspects the guard of honor during a welcome ceremony at the Defence Ministry in Beijing March 22, 2007.
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